Hey there,
Hope you’re having a great day!
I’m sitting in the sunlight writing this email while my bud Mark watches baseball highlights on TV.
Elon is probably at SpaceX Starbase right now…
Or maybe he’s at Tesla Motors Giga Texas…
But wherever he is I bet you he is working hard…
Because that’s what the leaders of fantastic organizations do:
They lead by example!
Like Elon.
Elon used to sleep in his office when he could not afford an apartment…
And now that Elon can afford anything he wants he was recently working so hard at Tesla he slept on the factory floor….
Because leaders like Elon set the standard for work ethic…
And that means leading the way with innovation and product creation…
Not simply following what every other corporation in the market is doing.
This means working and reasoning from first principles…
Rather than reasoning by analogy.
A fantastic example is the Cybertruck…
(I have 6 Cybertrucks on pre-order).
The Cybertruck was not dreamed up by trying to be like any other truck…
The Cybertruck is a product of first principles thinking with manufacturing efficiency in mind.
Maybe you love the Cybertruck…maybe you don’t.
Either way I bet you’ve talked about it, because the Cybertruck set a precedent for a remarkable new design.
And you don’t stand out by trying to be like everyone else.
You have to be remarkably different to get people making remarks about you.
First principles thinking tales more work…
It takes more hubris…
Smarter thinking and re-thinking is what it takes to win at the highest level…
So lead by example.
Lead like Elon…
And don’t be afraid to stand out!
Cheers,
Garin
Author of Elonology.com